Improvement in hand-motors for sewing-machines



J. BANOROFT. Hand-Motor for Sewing-Machine.

No. 216,496. Paten ted June 17, I879.

- ATTORNEYS.

JAMES BANOROFT, OF ATHENS, GEORGIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAND-MOTORS FOR SEWING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 216,496, dated June 17, 1879 application filed May 13, 1879.

To all whom it may concern: A loop, 0, depends from the machine-table e it known that I, JAMES BANCROFT, of in position to permit the outer extremity ofthe Athens, in the county of Clarke .and State of handle to be supported therein as the latter Georgia, have invented certain new and useis moved to and fro in endwise movement. ful Improvements in HandMotors for Sew- This loop may be made of any material, and ing-Machines; and I do hereby declare the suspended as desired; but, preferably, I use following to be a full, clear, and exact descripa cord or wire, and fasten the same by ascrew tion of the invention, such as will enable otheye or hook, b, secured to the under side of the ers skilled in th art to which it pertains to table near its front edge. make and use it, reference being had to the The handle is of length suflicient to project accompanying drawings, which form part of out beyond the tables edge, and be worked this specification. by the operator in horizontal reciprocation.

My invent-ion relates to sewing-machine mo- A hand-motor of this character is found to tors, and is designed to provide a simple form beextremely simple, both in its construction ofactuatingmeans, wherebya sewing-machine and operation, and to admirably answer the may be easily and effectively operated by the purpose of myinvention, as previously stated. hand. In the modification view it will be observed The invention consists in perfbrating the that the hook of the handle is made plain, upper extremity of the treadle-pitman, and without a screw-thread, and that it fits in the engaging therewith a horizontal handle which hole (also made without a screw-thread)forined projects outward from beneath the machine in the upper extremity of the pitman. table, so as to be readily operated, said handle Having fully described my invention, what having a hook on its inner extremity, which I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letengages with the eye of the pit-man, while it ters Patent, is i is supported in position during its horizontal In a sewing-machine, the combination, with reciprocation by a loop which is suspended thepitman, whose upper ext-remityis provided from the machine-table. with an eye, of the horizontal handle having In the drawings, Figure l is a view in side a hook which on gages therewith and the loop elevation, representing the invention. Fig. 2 depending from the machine-table, in which is a detached view of the same. Fig. 3 is a said handle works, substantially as set forth. modification view. In testimony that I claim the foregoing I The handle A may be made of any suitable have hereunto set my hand this 29th day of material, and preferably I uste a Lvirirod. It; April, 1879. extremity is made 1n form 0 a 00 at apte' to have screw-thread engagement with a cor- JAMES BANOROI responding eye, a, formed in the upper cx- Witnesses:

* emity of the treadle-pitman B of any sewing- JOSEPH BIRD,

' e. R. S. HAYWARD. 

